Arunima Sinha, a national level volleyball player who lost her leg after being thrown out by robbers from a running train near Bareilly on Monday, will be given a job by the railways which has promised all help for her rehabilitation.
National-level volley ball player Arunima Sinha aka Sonu, who lost her leg after she was thrown out off a moving train in Barielly last week, on Sunday underwent a surgery at the Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical Universitin Lucknow.
National level volleyball player Arunima Sinha, who lost a leg after being pushed off a moving train, was on Monday offered a government job by state Sports Minister Ayodhya Pal Singh. "The sports minister met Sonu on Monday morning and offered her a job in the Sports Directorate or the Sports College," said Deputy Director (Sports) Anil Banoda. He said Arunima and her family members have accepted the offer as the athlete wants to continue her association with sports.
A probe by the Government Railway Police has found loopholes in the version given by athlete Arunima Sinha, who lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers in Bareilly.Dismissing the investigations, the 23-year-old national level football and volleyball player said she was being "mentally harassed" by the police. "The investigations point out that Arunima was disturbed and she either attempted suicide or met with an accident," said an official.
National level athlete Arunima Sinha, who lost her leg after allegedly being pushed off a train, has been cured of infection in her amputated leg, doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where she is undergoing treatment, said.
The decision followed detection of a serious infection for which she underwent a second round of surgery at the King George's Medical College under Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Lucknow on Sunday.
'I wasn't just racing, I was paving the way for others.'
After the Government Railway Police claimed loopholes in sportsperson Arunima Sinha's version, a fresh controversy is brewing over her being a "national level player".
Arunima Sinha, the national-level volleyball player who lost her leg after being thrown out from a running train near Bareilly, will be able to walk once again with a city-based non-governmental orgaqnisation on Friday deciding to provide the athlete with a 'Jaipur Foot' free of cost.
The young athlete who lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers on Thursday demanded a government job, saying a "small compensation" will not help her. Arunima alias Sonu lost her leg after she was pushed out of the Padmavat Express in Bareilly on Monday night by three men who were trying to rob her when she was travelling to Delhi to appear for an examination. She said her dreams have been shattered."A few thousand rupees cannot last long," she said.
Arunima Sinha alias Sonu, the sportswoman, who lost her leg after being pushed from a moving train, was on Saturday shifted to a Lucknow hospital for further treatment, a senior health department officer said.
Expressing shock at volleyball player Arunima Sinha being thrown out of a train in Bareilly, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday held both Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati responsible for the incident.
National level volleyball player Arunima Sinha, who lost a leg after being pushed off a moving train, was on Sunday offered a government job by state Sports Minister Ayodhya Pal Singh.
The young athlete who lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers says 'small compensation' will not help her even as Railways ordered a high-level probe into the incident.
National fencing champion, Hoshiyar Singh, died on Thursday after he was allegedly thrown off a moving train by Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel in Uttar Pradesh.
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